i tried the mint 13 mate 64 live edition the other day, i noticed that the bluetooth applets from the system menu dont pop up, additionally there are applets that dont allow you to resize them even when the resize cursor is selected?

It's all good! Apart from..I was using Google Chrome and nothing else and it suddenly seized up.

ctrl-alt-F8I don't know why I have to press ctrl-alt-F8 to get the desktop instead of ctrl-alt-F7. When installing, I got a message something like "can't use screen 0, use 1?" to which I replied "yes", so perhaps everything is shifted along one. Though why I got the message in the first place I don't know.

Seizing upIt has seized up again, I was pasting a web address into a LibreOffice document table. I had Chrome and LibreOffice Writer open.I have tried it again and again: boot up, open Chrome and Writer, cut web address from Chrome address bar, post it into Writer table. It happens every time, everything locks up except the mouse cursor and ctrl-alt-F*. I can do ctrl-alt-backspace to log in again.

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Another problem, this time running a Java circuit design program which used to work. The File menu doesn't work, you can't let go of the mouse button or it goes again so you also can't select any of the options. This may be related to the fact that the mouse pointer does not align correctly. By this I mean that if I click on a component to select it, that works, but when I attempt to move the component, it jumps and is no longer attached to the pointer. I can move it but it is separate. I think this only happens if I have resized the window.

Another one - I hope it's helpful posting these problems.The menu shows a shortcut called "Places" at the bottom of the left-hand column and if I hover over it the right-hand column shows a list of home folders and bookmarks. None of those links work.

Has anyone seen a problem with the login screen appearing for a second and then going to a blank screen during a normal boot/reboot? I'm getting this on a random but frequent basis. I end up having to Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a prompt, login and then running...

...in order to get back to the login screen. In short, MDM keeps crashing on me during a boot or reboot and I have to restart it. I haven't found anything in the logs yet but I'm still looking. Here's my system specs:

Linux Mint 12 Katya has been so good I have been wondering what a possible follow up to it in 13 might be. I installed 12 as soon as it came out. It worked so good that I installed it on all my computers here and at the office. So I installed Maya 32 bit (I only run 64 bit when I have to) on a disk I had floating around here. What can I say? The Cinnamon version is beautiful. Of course it's not a final release, so an in depth comparisson might not be fair. It wouldn't install on an external USB drive I had though. I believe it to be potentially a slight improvemnt on appearance, a bug fix, and some new technical details added. I think that makes it GREAT, but 12 was hard to improve on much.

kmb42vt wrote:Has anyone seen a problem with the login screen appearing for a second and then going to a blank screen during a normal boot/reboot? I'm getting this on a random but frequent basis. I end up having to Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a prompt, login and then running...

...in order to get back to the login screen. In short, MDM keeps crashing on me during a boot or reboot and I have to restart it. I haven't found anything in the logs yet but I'm still looking. Here's my system specs:

Never had a problem with LightDM or GDM in the past. Not sure if this is a kernel problem or just a matter of timing.

After further research it appears to be a problem with the current Nvidia driver (295.40) which apparently has more bugs than usual which have been causing power and performance regressions for many users and this is the driver version that the "Additional Drivers" app installs by default (the "Recommended" driver).

Without getting into too much detail, the solution that worked for me is to install the "(post-release updates) (version current-updates)" driver instead (295.49). So far, this has solved the problem with MDM disappearing on boot/reboot and dropped my overall memory usage by approximately 50 MB.

Update: After a couple of reboots, the problem with MDM and the available Nvidia drivers has returned and it appears I'm not the only one with MDM having a conflict with these drivers. I still don't know whether this is a problem with MDM, the kernel or the Nvidia drivers.

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